Tadabase takes Airtable spreadsheets to the next level by transforming your data into a full-fledged, enterprise-grade database application you can use to power all aspects of your business.
Top 10 reasons why customers switch from Airtable to Tadabase
1. Tadabase builds full-scale database applications
While Airtable is a spreadsheet software with some database capabilities, Tadabase is an advanced relational database application builder that uses an easy spreadsheet-like interface to create complex, enterprise-grade database applications you can use to run your entire business and power every daily operational process within your organization.
2. Tadabase applications provide complex automation and business logic
While Airtable workspaces offer basic automation and workflow features that can help organize teams and basic internal processes, only full-scale database application platforms, such as Tadabase, can provide advanced business logic complex enough to power the sophisticated daily processes of a growing business. With powerful form rules, record rules, action links, and triggered actions, you can automate your most complex business processes, reducing costs, labor, and manual errors.
3. Tadabase is scalable
Even at its highest plan, Airtable is limited to 100,000 records per base. This limitation stunts business growth and can force customers to split data tables, compromising data integrity and the reliability of their databases. While all technology will have some natural limitations, Tadabase thrives on breaking the tech ceiling with its all-powerful SQL-backed infrastructure. With over 30 years of combined experience with building robust infrastructures and scaling large applications, as well as long-standing certifications in Microsoft Engineering and AWS architecture, the Tadabase founders built Tadabase from the ground up with scalability and limitless growth at the forefront of the platform’s design. This is why Tadabase applications can scale to millions of records at faster speed and greater efficiency than any other no-code platform.
4. Tadabase is enterprise ready
Tadabase provides enterprises and large organizations with the ability to scale seamlessly and on their own terms. With dedicated servers and private cloud tiers, your business will enjoy the autonomy and peace of mind that comes with unlimited scale, no “noisy neighbors”, and self-manageable dedicated servers. From the convenience of your dedicated server dashboard, your team can self-monitor your app performance and dedicated resources and scale your servers up and down as you see fit.
5. Tadabase does not charge per user
Like many other no-code platforms on the market today, Airtable utilizes an old-school per-user pricing structure, which is impractical and counterproductive for most modern, growing businesses. This traditional user-based pricing model sets an immediate cap on company collaboration and growth right out of the gate, and it discourages business owners from inviting all stakeholders to collaborate on a single source of truth. Tadabase, on the other hand, adopts a usage-based pricing structure, which encourages the inclusion of any and all users who may contribute to the data at work and contribute to your business growth.
6. Tabase offers advanced data privacy and granular access
As a spreadsheet software, Airtable’s user permissions and data privacy are limited to spreadsheet capabilities. When you share a base on Airtable, anyone who has access to that base can see everything. This can result in major data privacy concerns and can force Airtable customers to create duplicates of bases and workspaces just to filter information to certain users. This creates unnecessary work and confusion and compromises data integrity and reliability. As a full-scale database application builder, Tadabase provides advanced user permissions which allow customers to secure data on a record, page, and app-wide level. With custom login portals, advanced login forms, powerful role-based permissions, and role-based routing, app users of all different roles and access levels can collaborate on one application and access only the data relevant to them.
7. Tadabase apps can be white labeled, for real
While Airtable offers “custom branded forms,” Tadabase empowers customers to fully white label their apps and remove Tadabase branding from every facet of their applications, including the app code, URL, and design. This means that if you’re a business with a consumer-facing application or a developer building an app for a client, your applications will present entirely as your own, interface and code throughout.
8. Tadabase is customizable
Airtable’s customization options are limited to expanded color and formatting options, advanced calendar features, and custom branded forms. While these customization options may be suitable for small management projects or basic internal processes, any business with complex workflows and multiple, dynamic moving parts will require greater flexibility and advanced customization features. With Tadabase, companies can fully white label their applications and replace all reference to Tadabase with their own branding throughout their entire apps, including app design, backend code, and app URLs. With custom portals, custom login forms, drag and drop themes, and over two dozen unique components, including the Custom Component which empowers you to create your own custom designs, your application design is limited only to your imagination.
9. Tadabase will reduce your tech stack
When you run your business on a Tadabase application, you'll have all the services you need natively built-in to your app, including PDFs, auto-generated domain certificates, advanced design options, native integrations with any external service you need, and so much more. On Airtable, most of the critical services you need to run your business are not included, requiring Airtable customers to waste money on 3rd party services and spread their data too thin among multiple unnecessary tools. Customers who switched from other no-code platforms such as Airtable report an 80% decrease in their tech stacks since switching to Tadabase.
10. Tadabase has Pipes
With Pipes, Tadabases's built-in integrations system, you can natively integrate any external data you need into your app without the need for 3rd party integration tools like Zapier, Integromat, or Workato. Integrate external data from all your favorite services directly into your Tadabase app, dynamically and in real-time, without ever having to leave the Tadabase platform. Customers who switched from other no-code platforms report saving thousands of dollars a month in integration costs by switching to Tadabase.
Hosting and Deployment
Custom domain
Use your own custom domain for visitors to access your apps. For example, mybusiness.com vs. mybusiness.tadabase.io.
SQL-backed infrastructure
With its all-powerful SQL-backed database, Tadabase was designed from the ground up to scale to millions of records at faster speed and greater efficiency than other no-code platforms.
SEO
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, which is the practice of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your website through organic search engine results.
SSL certificates
SSL Certificates issued for a custom domain
True white label
Create custom applications that present entirely as your own, with your own company branding throughout your apps' interface, email addresses, backend code, and URL.
Integrations
Tadabase Pipes
Pipes is Tadabase's internal integrations system which natively integrates external data from all your favorite services directly into your Tadabase app, dynamically and in real-time.
AWS S3
Use your own S3 bucket to store uploaded files.
Cloudinary
Built-in Cloudinary integration facilitates the upload and access process for app images.
Dropbox
Save uploaded files directly into custom folders in your own Dropbox Account.
E-Commerce
Natively integrate e-commerce functionality via Pipes
Google Data Studio
Create advanced reporitng using Google Data Studio. Automatically pull your app data into Google Data Studio by simply supplying an api key.
Slack
Connect Tadabase with Slack to post and edit messages, modify your status, and view and modify reminders.
Stripe subscriptions
Turn your app into a subscription model and enable subscription fees per user.
Tableau
Connect Tadabase with Tableau to use your database as a data source for powerful charting capabilities.
Webhooks
Trigger secure webhooks that run when a record is created, updated, or deleted.
Design and Customization
Custom component designer
The Custom Component is our low-code solution to custom designs using standard HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
Advanced page customization
Customize each page with its own settings for title, slug, status, parent layout, page rules, security, JavaScript, and CSS.
CSS
Custom CSS can be added to any layout, page, row, column, or component for advanced design and customization.
Custom themes
Custom themes can be added to your application by adding custom CSS to a page or layout, or by linking to an external stylesheet in the app's Custom Header/Footer Code section.
Page redirect rules
Redirect users based on preset criteria, such as user role or status. Set multiple rules to ensure users are always directed to pages that are relevant or appropriate for them.
Security and Compliance
Custom login portals
Create unique, password-protected portals for different groups of users, empowering all the roles in your organization to collaborate on one application without compromising data privacy or data security.
2FA
Enable 2FA (Two Factor Authentication) which will require anyone logging in via email to verify their email using a one time 6-digit code.
Backups
Active apps are all backed up, encrypted and stored in several secure locations for ultimate disaster recovery.
Builder change logs
Track all changes performed in the Builder.
Email logs
Verify details for each email sent throughout various processes within your app.
Granular page security
Fine-tune your app security by defining individual page security permissions as well as security options for components within your pages.
HIPAA
Tadabase offers HIPAA compliant editions that can be purchased as add-ons to your subscription plan.
IP white listing
Dynamically manage app security by allowing/ denying defined IP addresses from accessing your app.
Login logs
Track all successful and failed login attempts to your application.
Logout existing sessions
Manually log users out of active sessions and set up timeout rules when needed.
Privacy shield
Privacy Shield is an agreement between the EU and US allowing for the transfer of personal data from the EU to US.
Record delete history
Track all deleted records from within your app.
View change logs app-side
Ability to view record change logs from the Live App.
Components
Custom component designer
The Custom Component is our low-code solution to custom designs using standard HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
Accordion
List your data in a compact interactive view allowing page visitors to expand and highlight records as needed.
Timeline
Visual timelines are a great tool for displaying events in a date/time-based order.
Automation
Tadabase Pipes
Pipes is Tadabase's internal integrations system which natively integrates external data from all your favorite services directly into your Tadabase app, dynamically and in real-time.
Triggered related tasks
Export templates
Export your data as CSV files anytime with the click of a button. Create custom export templates to export a defined set of columns and data.
Forms and Fields
Multi-step forms
Create multi-page and multi-step forms to auto-direct users through complex forms
Advanced form redirect
Upon form submission, direct users to an app page or external URL based on defined conditions.
Advanced form layouts
Using rows and columns, form layouts can be customized to group related data or control the flow of data entry.
Assign score values to dropdowns
Assigning score values to each value within an option field will empower you to track and analyze complex calculations on your values.
Enable/disable display rules
Toggle display rules on and off.
Get form values from URL
Prefill form values with parameters from a URL.
Insert non-connected records in rules
Use record rules to insert records into any existing data tables.
Logged-in user values for record rules
Use data values from a logged-in user in your record rules.
Require/unrequire fields in display rules
When a form field is triggered to show itself based on the value of another field, you can chose to require or not require that field.
Slider field
Use a range slider with custom Start and End numbers to set a value based on the slider position.
Validation error messages
Customizable error messages to display when form validation fails.
Advanced Features
Action links
Trigger automations with a click of a button.
App variables
Reference-able values that can be used and re-used throughout your application.
Builder API
Make instant, powerful changes to your apps without ever having to log into the Builder.
Filter by records connected to logged-in user
Configure components to only display records that are connected to the logged-in user.
Hide columns in filter tabs
Chose to hide specific columns when using Filter Tabs.
Shared builder
Shared builders empower you to share your app building experience with other valuable users, invite collaboration into your app's development, and work more efficiently with strategic and controlled app collaboration.
Table filter tabs
Add tabs to the top of a table with preset filters, allowing users quick access to various data sets.
Frequently Asked Questions
For one, think of all the money you'll save on your monthly/ annual Zapier subscription. With Pipes, Tadabase's internal integrations system, you'll be able to integrate with all your favorite services directly from your Tadabase app without having to pay for extra 3rd party integration tools. Secondly, Pipes work in real-time, not after the fact. View integrated Pipe values dynamically without even having to save the records. Click here to learn more about Tadabase Pipes.
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